On April 24, Belgian composer Elisabeth Klinck’s debut album Picture a Frame will be published on Switzerland-based label Hallow Ground [see zweikommasieben #11].

To discuss possible visual representations for Klinck’s music, the composer sat down in a café in Gent, Belgium with Oscar Claus, a close collaborator of hers, and visual artist Gregoire Verbeke last summer. Ideas and plans were exchanged and soon after Klinck saw herself taking a three-hour train ride to the Belgian countryside. The composer stepped into a remote place. Far away from loud highways and busy boulevards this place became kind of a basis for the film, rendering the decelerated and minimalistic workflow in which Klinck and Verbeke only filmed with sunlight and closely followed a script that was made not to waste any film.

The video clip that resulted shows a fugitive story. Moving through different locations and showing us a collection of loosely intertwined shots, the film remains hard to gasp. In this mode the music seems to merge with the visual. Adding value without ever overdetermining the two layers, a nice poetic gesture is created.

Elisabeth Klinck’s “Winter Song” is officially out on April 31. Here you can listen to the track—and watch the accompanying video—before its public release: